US Patent Issued to AI on May 20 for "Method and system for collaborative construction of a map" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,698, issued on May 20, was assigned to AI Inc. (Toronto).

"Method and system for collaborative construction of a map" was invented by Ali Ebrahimi Afrouzi (Henderson, Nev.), Sebastian Schweigert (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Lukas Robinson (York, Canada) and Chen Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for constructing a map of an environment. One or more sensory devices installed on an autonomous vehicle take readings within a field of view of the sensory device. As the vehicle moves within the environment, the sensory device continuously takes readings within new fields of view. At the same time, sensory dev...